15 Apr
1998
15 Apr
'98
9:21 p.m.
All right, I have taken this for a while, but no
more. This ignorance
about Soviet technology and abilities is ridiculous. I think you
people have kept your anti-communist opinions along with you IBM
704s.
Although the USSR certainly had ridiculous administration, and its
technology was not very modern, there were many advances by the
soviet union, and it now has just as much technology as the US.
The soviets always had comparable technology, but were limited by
inefficient manufacturing and logistics. Those only exposed to western
design philosophy tend to belittle soviet engineers because of the
seemingly crude appearance of their equipment, but they had to meet
vastly different product requirements. Their export market was the
underdeveloped third world, no infrastructure at all. When your target
market is some place like Mongolia, Eritrea or South Yemen you have an
entirely different set of design parameters. There is no Radio Shack
down the corner, no parts store in town, no UPS delivery service. Even Jack Peacock
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